The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-11-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

"A SEVEN STORY IasnlOnaDle apartment
building nearly completed in Minneapolis,
Mimi. was destroyed by fire on the 7th,
causing loss of $l4O,OOO
Az Reidsville, N. c., H Sampson q Co. q
tobacco factory was burned on the 7th
Loss, $1OO.OOO
AT Omaha, Neb., on the 7th, . barn was
burned and twenty y-nine horses were cre-
mated.
FIRES raging in the timber in the neigh
borhoOd Of Hilsboro, Ill, had on the 7th
burned frm-houses, grain, fences, lumber,
etc.
MEssRA WAssERMAN. Leyden, Ochs. Van
Pelt Varnell and Wren, the convicted Chi
cagO "bood,e ers' were on the 7th sentenced
to two years each In the penitentiary.
J. H TAYLOR, of Jeffersonville, Ind, while
standing at his door on the 7th was shot
dead by some one in ambush.
AT Evansville, Ind, . business block was
destroyed by fire ON the 7th. causing loss
Of 500. .OO0
Two NOTORIOUS gangs of counterfeiters
and criminals that had infested Louisville
and vicinity for some years had, it was an
nounced on the Sth, been completely broken
up by Government detectives
Ar the fifteenth annual session of the
American Public Health Association held at
Memphis, Tenn, on the Sth, delegates from,
almost every State in the Union and Canada
were present
FIRE destroyed the large barn Of Lambert
Fribley, near New Philadelphia, O., on the
8th, together with five valuable horses,
three cows and his entire years crop
THE men recently lynched for the murder
Of Rev. Mr. Ryan In Roane County, W. Va
were on the 9th said to be innocent of the
crime, and efforts were being made to bring
the lynchers to justice.
SIX men were killed and seven others were
injured by the caving in of q railroad tun-
mel on the Sth twelve miles west OF CoshOo-
ton. O.
JAMES HussEx and Patrick Hogan, Demo
cratic ticket-peddlers, got into dispute a
the polls in Chicago on the Sth, and before
they could tie separated the latter shot and
killed the other.
OWING to the protracted drought In
Southern Indiana and Illinois wells were
on the 6th said to have given ont and
people were compelled to 60 several miles
for water.
BIZ the falling Of . bridge over the
Maumee river ut Waterville, O., ON the 6tt
one man was killed and several were fatally
injured
TIE striking miners in the Springfield
Ml) district decided on the Sth to return tt
work at the rates offered by the operators
sixty-two and one- half cents q ton.
The death of Judge John M. Berry, Of the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, occurred al
Minneapolis on the SthL
The Malsters at Milwaukee not connected
with breweries went out on q strike on the
8th- The men want sixty dollars q month
an increase OF five dollars over the present
pay
NEAR Wills Point, Tex, very destructive
prairie fire was raging on the Sth, and every
thing combustible had been burned in ar
area eight miles square
In the Patoks Qnd) bottoms, extending
from Dubois County twenty miles down the
river. forest fires were raging on the 8th.
In the election In Ohio, on the 9Th, Gov.
ernor Foraker Rep) was reelected by 2l, >.
600 plurality, with the Legislature Repub
lican- In Iowa the Republicans reelected
Governor Larrabee by $4,000 plurality,
and have large majority in the Legislature
In Virginia and Mississippi Democratic
Legislatures were chosen In Maryland
Elihu E Jackson Dem.) was elected Gov
ernor by 1000 majority. Nebraska elected
Samuel Maxwell Rep) Supreme Judge by
20, 600 majority. The Prob .bition amend
ment in Oregon was defeated by 5000 ma,
jority. Dakota gave . majority of 25,OO(
in favor of division of the Territory. In Chi
cago the Republicans elected their entire
ticket, Judge, States Attorney and com.
missioners, by large majority.
An eleven-year-old colored youth named
CharleaH. Locksley was sentenced ut At
lsnta, Ga ON the 9th to life-imprisonment
for murder
AnRE on the 9th destroyed the mair
building of the Soldiers Orphans Home a,
Davenport In Loss, $50. 600; insurance
e22, 600 A nash Of lightning caused thu
lxA Ne ivos were lost